of the united states will not stop us mexico has started processing the first of the migrants who arrive those with passports and visas will be allowed to enter others will have to apply to enter as refugees. and where we are a peaceful caravan we're not hurting anyone right in the street we're looking for a new life a better future. with thousands of kilometers until they reach the u.s. border with mexico hope for better life continues to push these migrants north paltrow durgin on al-jazeera now there are at least a million widows in iraq after decades of conflict and war has left them so breadwinners and many are struggling to make ends meet but a new government designed to assist them is proving controversial mom of the reports now from baghdad. a man lost eight members of her family in the conflict and including her husband has been left to bring up three children or. she says he

was divorced heated up fast but the experience was broken she now walks in these places to shop in a suburb of the couple. and frankly speaking there is a lot of pressure on me juggling between being a mother and putting food on the table i have managed it well so far but at the expense of my health i do most of my household chores that night then has to me to do one million widows in one in ten households in the contains headed by a woman in some districts it's almost one in five of the offices of a local charity these readers are being trained as teachers it's a program partly funded with donations from the state and well wishes i've been there all these women have no salaries and no source of income to raise their children we are giving them skill stable them to eventually gain much needed income and relevance in the society the plight of wheedles has been this cult. it will

find will feel fully understand what they go through on a daily basis that the painful memories they say jani for lost loved ones on them days there was something. about caring for the children cool for them feeding them as the main breadwinner. during saddam hussein's rule war widows were looked after by the state now they mostly remain hidden and vulnerable they are increasing calls for more assistance for iraq's we doze and even suggestions to allow polygamy politicians put forward a proposal recently for the government to women financial incentives to take we does a second wives or more subsidy and i'll share the news and contact show host questions the assumption that the widow who would be better off on one of them are why do we have a negative view point of widows and divorced women any law for them should come with guarantees so that all those who abuse it and those who exploit widows are forced

to return any funds they have received from the state. without a doubt the economy limping along dependent entirely on crude oil and the government preoccupied with their cost structure and building national unity many acknowledge that little is likely to change for iraq's we don't see any time soon how would i do. that. california is planning to change a controversial sentencing system the post many a picture of offenders in prison for life as rob reynolds reports the state thousands of inmates seek to rope. three strikes and you're out a term taken from the american sport of baseball is spent on life behind bars for thousands of nonviolent repeat offenders in california studies indicate nonviolent inmates imprisoned under the law which was enacted in one nine hundred ninety four are disproportionately black and many are mentally ill some are serving life sentences for offenses as trivial as shoplifting stealing

a bottle of liquor or possessing small amounts of narcotics now california plans to allow approximately four thousand third strike inmates to seek parole none are guaranteed release and a corrections department spokeswoman said they will undergo rigorous public safety screening before parole board decisions are made california voters approved changing the three strikes law two years ago but the state's governor jerry brown has challenged the changes in court brown has agreed to drop further legal action lawyers representing nonviolent offenders sentenced under the law called the decision monumental what this really does is it recognizes that some of these people are the lowest risk prisoners and the california state prison system they have. done it immense amount of programming they've done i meant about of education work while they're in prison and by by the prison systems own risk assessment these

people are disproportionately low risk to re-offend once they're released in the community. state records show that nonviolent third strike prisoners released in an earlier round of paroles were much less likely to commit additional crimes once they were back in society. twenty seven u.s. states besides california have. three strikes and you're out laws they were enacted during a time when it was very politically popular to appear tough on crime there had been an epidemic of violence due to crack cocaine in many american cities in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. and these laws were passed at that time since then of course the crime rate nationwide has dropped very significantly and social scientists and criminologists are still trying to figure out the reasons for that decline rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles still to come here on the news hour in the. names to stay on course for

a fifth formula one world title santa is here with that story when we come back.

thank you very much the boston red sox have got the better of defending champion the houston astros to reach baseball's welfare is the red sox at the feet of the astros for one minute to close out this series and it will take on either the l.a. dodgers all the milwaukee brewers four and l b's biggest prize and do it it's and

has more. of the postseason david price was in title winning form for the boston red sox but he's in the clear that spot tonight he struck out knowing in six shutouts innings against reigning world series champions the houston astros strike up to the first price. but what should j.t. last seen as was released by the astros four years ago i know he was hitting the red sox towards the fourth world series in fifty years is still schwitters years but the game turned decisively in the sixpenny rafael davis hitting a three run homer i thought i was i was playing the red sox for up an insight to victory. in game four houston with downs in the game tying home run when the crowd was deemed to have interfered with who can't but says attempt to catch us twenty four hours on and in a virtual action replay the fans backed off. the ball on the asterisk by full with

fearing the worst. mauling gonzalez did go on to head a solo home run think he's done but there has to be no late comeback in the red sox winning the game and the series for one bit until i got that that was done was it sucks that i did that was serious so everybody knows the history of the city and you know history has positive size and negative sides and then for me to. as a minority to be a manager in boston you know as i'm in a challenge you know people have been great with us but obviously people talk about that and to be able to lead this team is amazing is a great group they'll play this you know they they did a really good job of you know having an excellent game plan and go and executing it and and and they were just really tough. will still face on it if he is going to walk you through is to major league baseball's biggest talking to the soldiers in

the that series three two and a richard says al jazeera. the bron james scored twenty six points on his n.b.a. debut for the l.a. lakers a but couldn't inspire his team to win the. show live on this playing for western conference franchise for the first time in his career after his move from the cleveland cavaliers he's aiming for ninth straight appearance in the n.b.a. finals but despite his best efforts at the lakers lost this game against the portland trailblazers other than twenty eight one hundred nineteen. now it's kind of kind of compared now to the time i can say no it's not that fast it takes a while for the chemistry to get to where you know you can call you know exactly where your guys are so you know that's what we're going to work towards to not only defense was well off this week. you know they'll be everything crosses for. those hamilton could secure his fifth formula one world title at the upcoming u.s.

play politan can become a only the third driver in f one history to win so many championships if he clinches sunday's race and his closest rival sebastian vettel finishes low of the second first practice that takes place later this friday in austin. none of us are saying how how cool would it be if it happened this weekend or the next for that we're not focusing on gifts we're focusing on making sure that we deliver there's still one hundred points available so we can just never be complacent in life and in the championship as intense as this you know we expect for ari two to punch back hard here this weekend and so we can't be relaxed in any way shape or form we've got to make sure we come here and raise the bar again from across international tell you all he is expecting a tough test in his first match since taking over ask coach of monaco who is most recently belgium's assistant manager will take his team away to hospital go on that

saturday twenty seventh in a french champions are down an eighteenth position to go on with just six points from mind games there was a thought i mean we would have to go ahead and make a result in strasbourg it's like this much will not be easy they were drawn level in their last match to two against only it was a good match between orange and strasburg we will try to work properly. after twelve days of competition the use in limping games has come to an end in argentina more than four thousand actually say aged between fifteen and eighteen from over two hundred countries took part in the said edition of the games correspondent was at the closing ceremony when osiris so more say that the olympic ideal has been stained in recent years by overcommercialization corruption and drug taking the youth olympic games with a much lower profile here in one osiris some say is an opportunity to try to redress the balance with youngsters aged between fifteen and eighteen for more than

two hundred countries around the world taking part in thirty two sports that alongside the sports issues are being discussed issues such as race and gender equality and the environment issues that the movement says are relevant to the olympic ideal the olympic movement to try to get the youngsters involved to try to lay the seeds for young argentines youngsters around the world to participate in sports in a clean and noncommercial way these were truly. these are used to be games room or urban movie room or female room or. the organizers certainly feel that's been a success here in that one osiris that the crowds of from around argentina have for up to the events at venues around one osiris they're being cues for many hours trying to get names of events that many argentines i'm not familiar with they say

it's been a huge success it'll be done again now in four years time in senegal. and the fall from back to pizza santa thanks very much lots more news on the web site background stories as well al jazeera dot com is the address you need atrium this here on the other side of the break i'm back at thirteen with that news hour we'll see you then of on.

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from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to black people today some of us old scott even scared to speak out because it's a product of. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. the united states talks tough on saudi arabia as donald trump acknowledges the journalist jamal khashoggi is likely to be dead. and sending a signal the u.s. treasury secretary drops out of a crucial investment summit in riyadh of some european leaders also with.

a one hundred for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up such days both in afghanistan's kandahar province is suspended at day after the taliban killed the top two provincial officials. the u.s. president says the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is probably dead he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul more than two weeks ago donald trump says that there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible for the killing it comes as more than forty members of the u.s. congress called for sanctions against saudi arabia in a letter to the president and treasury secretary steven has added his name to the growing list of international figures who have withdrawn from an upcoming financial conference in riyadh nicknames in the desert we'll have more on that later in the

program but first mike hanna reports from washington. it was a somber president trump who for the first time publicly acknowledge the possibility that your malka shoji is dead it certainly looks that way to me it's very sad turn limits he says he still waiting for the results of various investigations but if there's evidence there will be serious consequences for saudi arabia have to be very severe i mean it's a bad beds. but we'll see what happens trump's comments followed a meeting with the secretary of state might pump aoe who briefed the president on his meetings with saudi and turkish leaders there are lots of stories out there about what has happened we just going to allow the process to move forward. while the facts to unfold and as they unfold as we make a determination for ourselves about what happened there based on the facts that are

presented to us the united states will determine what the appropriate response of memory and significantly straight after the meeting it was confirmed that treasury secretary steve had canceled a trip to an investment conference in riyadh later this month the first tangible sign of any action against saudi arabia by the trump administration and yet another bipartisan call from congress for the president to determine accountability and impose sanctions against those found responsible this in a letter from more than forty house members which also said additionally we offset you promptly disclose whether the united states intercepted communications among saudi officials discussing plans to detain mr call shogi and advise what actions were taken to warn him of any attack. but the president occupied on this evening at least with yet another campaign rally the mid-term elections looming and his

handling of the current diplomatic crisis just one of a number of issues which will determine how people vote by al-jazeera washington life out of washington our white house correspondent kimberly healthcare is with us so complete donald trump says there will be severe consequences for saudi arabia if it's found responsible for the killing and that he believes that tomorrow is probably dead what are we to make of that. well we have to look at the statements in their entirety over the weekend what we've certainly seen well we've had some strong language from the white house in the last twenty four hours if you look at the entire week adrian if seems as if the cid ministration is still looking for a way to allow the king to buy time and there's a reason that the u.s. administration might be doing that in terms of buying time i mean by trying to come up sort of with an alternative explanation about what might have happened to the

missing journalist that would allow the kingdom essentially to save face and find a scapegoat if you well the reason for that is that saudi arabia is really the foundation of donald trump's middle east policy particularly when it comes to confronting iran we have some very important sanctions that we're expecting to be leveled by the united states against iran would affect its oil exports coming up early next month and if this happens the united states was counting on as part of that policy to have saudi arabia fill in the gaps if you will making sure that there's still a steady supply of oil making sure that the prices don't go up high at the pumps for american consumers so geopolitically there is reason for donald trump's administration to try to work with saudi arabia there's another reason too and that's domestic gerrard cushion or who is white house advisor also is the president's son in law he would be very embarrassed politically domestically if in

fact it is found that mohammed bin solomon is the one that ordered the disappearance and the what we believe to be the presumed death of. this is because jared cushier has invested heavily in that relationship and it would be a political embarrassment for the trumpet ministration so well we again are hearing that the president is now saying that there have to be very severe consequences in terms of the reaction by the united states it also appears. that very key statement by the secretary of state that they are trying to give the sort of opportunity for not only the turkish authorities but the saudi authorities to work this out because domestically in geo politically there are u.s. interests in trying to see that the saudi government saves face given all of that kimberly how much clout will this bipartisan lesson from the forty eight members of congress have can the president afford to ignore it along with the international

condemnation of saudi arabia. and then we have to add on top of that few days earlier we have the twenty two senators who sent a letter triggering the global magnitsky act what's unusual about all of this is that there's agreement between democrats and republicans in congress that almost never happens in the last decade so there's a lot of pressure we have to remind our viewers that the white house and donald trump he's not an imperial president he is checked and his power is checked by the u.s. congress so given the global condemnation given the bipartisan push for this administration to act it is very possible that in spite of the white house in dragging its heels that we could see congress taking action that would force donald trump to sign legislation that would not only limit arms sales but also would perhaps withdraw u.s. support for the saudi led conflict in yemen committee many thanks indeed on white

house correspondent kelly how could live in washington will lead to is a meeting in brussels to discuss a variety of issues affecting member states but some of the talks are zeroing in on what happened to jamal khashoggi france's suspended political visits to saudi arabia and other e.u. leaders have also voiced their concerns soon as paul brennan is live for us now in brussels what is the sentiment then pull among e.u. leaders that. this summit here which follows on from the european council summit yesterday it's called a some summit and it brings together leaders from to cover essentially sixty percent of the world's population talking about politics the economy and the told not social and cultural cooperation but at the root of it all is the need for a rules based world order and frankly the agreement that appears to be bubbling under from the leaders that was speaking to and who are making public pronouncements is that the killing of

a dissident journalist in an overseas consulate certainly does not abide by the rules based world order the words that are being coming out include when we. we spoke to the luxemburg prime minister this morning who said that there should be an investigation first information that we have is not very positive and then he grimaced at us the other thing donald tusk the president of the pink council said we need a fair fair and transparent investigation three clear problems there and we've also heard both last night from the french president now on background and today from the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt liffey. the facts we know today are mr g. extremely serious and worrying we expect to throw light on this matter we have had exchanges with saudi authorities to clarify all this but in the current circumstances we have decided to postpone political visits including that of our

economy minister. we have been very clear yes we want to hear the results of this investigation we want to see if it's credible if it's independent but if the stories that we're reading turn out to be true will that have an effect on our relationship with saudi river yes it will because if the stores are true and it is still if they would be totally against of what we stand for as a country. so the european leaders here are willing to abide by what mike pompei or the cia director sorry the secular state said which was that let's give the saudis just a couple more days in order to try and complete their investigation but make no mistake about it the pressure for answers is relentless in the pressure for answers paula what realistically can either leaders do to put pressure on both saudi arabia and the trumpet ministration here. yeah i mean we heard from

kimberly just just a second ago about the delicate and complex nature of trying to consider sanctions against saudi arabia given the investment that saudi arabia has both in america and in europe and of course the clout of the saudi has in relation to the world's oil supply that said there are possibilities i mean for example the isolation that saudi arabia is feeling at the moment with all of those finance ministers and world economic leaders who are bailing out of next week's. davos in the deserts conference choosing not to go as a direct result of what's happened. you know we know that the saudis have threatened to retaliate if sanctions are imposed and they are good to their word you look at what happened to canada in august to join summer where a simple tweet from the foreign minister asking for the release of a couple of human rights activists led to the expulsion of the canadian ambassador from saudi arabia but that said saudi arabia is on the. it's pressure to come up

with answers and to come up with credible ounces and the although you know deals and jobs are not wanting to be put on jeopardy by sanctions and make no mistake the leaders here perhaps could be prepared to impose specific sanctions against individuals who are found responsible for many thanks i was there as paul brennan live in brussels where investigative teams are sifting through evidence taken from the saudi consul general is home as well as the consulate which was last seen more than two weeks ago i was in a child's stratford is that during a visit to macedonia turkey's foreign minister medvedev jova shows saying that evidence that is being gathered we understand from the consulate and the consul general is now in look forward trees being examined as to exactly what that evidence is it's difficult to say according to government and prosecutors leaks to the media in the last couple of days we understand that.